Candles, lamps with spare batteries, stove with spare cylinders for heating food and boiling water. Standby battery and solar charger for electronics. Not enough space for a standby generator though a kindly neighbour has one. That's for the short term. Were we to suffer widespread interruption of supplies for days then it would get very nasty.

Nigeria.... your gen is your most valued possession. The reason why there's been zero investment in the public electricity supply over the years is that too many ministers are getting fat off the kickbacks they receive for the importation of gensets.

Nigeria.... your gen is your most valued possession. The reason why there's been zero investment in the public electricity supply over the years is that too many ministers are getting fat off the kickbacks they receive for the importation of gensets.

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To distribute power you need a network and they havent really looked after this very well, the transformer at my hotel has bare 11kv bus bars, we are currently out here installing gas engines on Private independent power plants, there also some big turbine stations being built, I have heard they used to export power out to Ghana and Cameroon were the networks were functionable.

41 years ago I remember being taken shopping in a Woolworths lit by paraffin lamps and using mechanical cash registers. Life went on as normal. Now with electronic payment and automatic doors there have been incidences of stores shutting due to a temporary local power cut.

ohnohesback » 41 years ago I remember being taken shopping in a Woolworths lit by paraffin lamps and using mechanical cash registers. Life went on as normal. Now with electronic payment and automatic doors there have been incidences of stores shutting due to a temporary local power cut.